Word: weekes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...practice of the gridiron year, and Dick Harlow's task is no exception. A bit of offensive polish here and there and a few more sessions of dissecting Yale offensive and defensive tactics for the benefit of his men have been the big jobs for the Crimson mentor this week...
...Last week the Harvard University Corporation rescinded its permission for a student meeting at which Earl Browder was to speak. It did so with the explanation that his indictment for a passport violation had made him unfit for a Harvard platform. Three days later a mob of legionnaires and assorted thugs descended on a Detroit meeting-hall where Communist leader William Z. Foster was delivering an address. They picketed boisterously, and when the meeting ended and the crowd began to disperse, they went into action. They created a tumultuous riot, inflicted injuries on nearly fifty people who had attended...
...better than anything, and that they spent most of the year sitting around, unemployed, licking their chops while waiting for Thanksgiving and the Salvation Army Banquet. So, being, as everyone knows, a frightful opportunist, he decided to make the people like him by giving them Thanksgiving a week early so that they wouldn't have to wait so long. And he did, and they won't, and the Salvation Army objected like Hell...
...students who come from New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will find that when they come home for the turkey next Thursday they will be a week late. These Middle Atlantic states are among the twenty-two that are celebrating Thanksgiving today...
...Copley this week Boston's indefatigable stock company has given us s chance to see the play just as Shaw wrote it, stripped of the glitter of Leslie Howard's virtuoso film performance. The result is an interesting commentary on the claim Shaw makes of being a great playwright. While the main elements of the plot will always be good theatre, there is more than an indication that the social satire he weaves into his plays will have to be freely adapted for every succeeding decade. And yet, even if Shakespeare played straight straight may be timeless, Shaw...